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Bernd Debusmann Jr
BBC News, White House
US President Donald Trump volition motion an enforcement bid that prevents transgender women from competing successful pistillate categories of sports, according to White House officials.
The bid volition supply guidance, regulations and ineligible interpretations, and it volition enlist the Department of Education to analyse precocious schools thought to beryllium non-compliant.
Republicans accidental it restores fairness to sports but LGBT advocacy and quality rights organisations person described the determination arsenic discriminatory.
The order, expected to beryllium signed connected Wednesday, volition mostly screen precocious school, universities and grassroots sports.
A fig of sporting governing bodies, including swimming, athletics and golf, person banned transgender women from competing successful the pistillate class astatine elite level if they person gone done antheral puberty.
According to White House officials who briefed reporters connected Wednesday morning, this latest bid volition empower the Department of Education to analyse however schools instrumentality Title IX, a US instrumentality that bans enactment favoritism successful federally funded acquisition programmes.
An medication authoritative said that the enforcement bid volition reverse the presumption of the Biden medication which successful April past twelvemonth said that LGBT students would beryllium protected by national law, though it did not springiness circumstantial guidance connected transgender athletes.
Additionally, the White House plans to bring successful sporting bodies - specified arsenic the National Collegiate Athletics Association, oregon NCAA - to travel to the White House to conscionable pistillate athletes and their parents to sermon concerns.
The authoritative said the US would bash each it tin to forestall transgender athletes from competing against females successful International Olympic Committee competitions that instrumentality spot connected US soil.
The White House officials described the policies arsenic being broadly fashionable with Americans and captious to ensuring "fairness" for women successful sports, arsenic good arsenic a information issue.
In a statement, Human Rights Campaign President Kelley Robinson said that the bid "exposes young radical to harassment and discrimination, emboldening radical to question the sex of kids who don't acceptable a constrictive presumption of however they're expected to formal oregon look".
"For truthful galore students, sports are astir uncovering determination to belong," Ms Robinson added. "Not partisan policies that marque beingness harder for them."
Less than 1% of the colonisation implicit the property of 13 successful the US are transgender, according to a survey by the UCLA Williams Institute, and the fig playing athletics is smaller.
On Trump's archetypal time successful bureau connected 20 January, helium signed a abstracted bid calling for the national authorities to officially specify enactment arsenic either being antheral oregon female.
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